[Cialug] Iowa Telecom and Qwest

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Todd Walton wrote:
>> Also, streaming video, or downloadable movies as companies like Netflix
>> are investigating, could easily hit the bandwidth caps.
>
> Agreed.  And while overbooking might be okay for airplanes, when
> applied to bandwidth it makes assumptions that may not hold true.  Why
> would I stream movies from Netflix if I'm afraid of my ISP cutting me
> off for it?  And then people talk about America being not as wired as
> other places in the world...

I would rather be oversold on bandwidth than seats. Slow internet isn't as 
bad to me as a consumer than sitting in an airport for another day.

dave

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